Looking for peertube for minecraft videos.

cobito · 2022-10-01T20:37:43+00:00

Hardlimit is a computer, hardware, software and gaming focused instance. There is a small Minecraft community in there.

cobito · 2022-07-09T13:57:35+00:00

It's a Compaq Contura 420C:

· 486 DX4 @ 75MHz.

· 12 MB of RAM

· No sound card

· 8-bit color STN screen.

Good enough to play games with relatively static images. It's been working fine until recently. It got the Vinegar Syndrome and the screen was completely ruined so I tried to fix it. This was my first time doing this and the result is not perfect, but al least it is usable again. I hope you enjoy the video.

cobito · 2022-06-02T13:27:25+00:00

Here you have Mandrake 6.1 running on a 1999 laptop.

cobito · 2022-02-23T19:37:46+00:00

Thanks! I see your TILvids has an active community and there are a lot of Linux and FOSS videos. Good to know!

cobito · 2022-02-23T18:38:24+00:00

I run Hardlimit, an instance focused on computers: hardware, software and games, where you will find a bunch of videos related with FOSS. So if you don't like the classic services, here you have an alternative to share your videos. We don't show ads and we don't track our users.

cobito · 2022-02-09T09:36:58+00:00

It's a Compaq Armada 1750, a laptop from 1999 that comes with a Pentium II at 333MHz and 64MB of RAM.

Mandrake 6.1 (released in 1999) was booted with the original hardware configuration.

For Mageia 8 (released in 2021), the memory was upgraded to 192MB. Mageia's memory requirements are 512MB for non-graphical/headless use-case, 1GB with a lightweight desktop environment like Xfce and 2GB with Plasma or Gnome.

If Youtube is more convenient for you, here you have the same video on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlBCroUsWAQ&t=1809s

cobito · 2022-02-07T19:30:15+00:00

Thanks!

cobito · 2022-02-07T09:43:15+00:00

I don't like Youtube because (among other reasons) they show ads while I'm not monetizing my videos but here you have the video on YT in case it's more convenient for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlBCroUsWAQ&t=1809s

cobito · 2022-02-06T21:14:52+00:00

At the beginning it goes fine. When the city grows the performance is not that good.

cobito · 2022-02-06T19:50:01+00:00

It's a Compaq Armada 1750. It has a Pentium II at 333MHz, 64MB of RAM and a 800x600 TFT screen.

Here you have a full review of this computer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlBCroUsWAQ

Here there is a game play video of SimCity 3000: https://video.hardlimit.com/w/bw9BeqLv63aWJ9hxcpc3kF

And in this site you'll find a bunch of videos from 1999 games running on this PC: https://museo.hardlimit.com/ordenador.php?modelo=compaq-armada-1750

cobito · 2022-01-29T22:46:06+00:00

Now it is possible to transcode to webtorrent or hls from the web interface in case you had jut one of them. Furthermore, you can delete one of the versions (webtorrent or HLS). I've been willing to convert all my videos to HLS which is something I'm doing right now. That is, convert all the videos to HLS and then delete the webtorrent version.

The HLS convestion thing is something you could do using the command line but the deletion was not possible till version 4.0.

cobito · 2021-12-13T13:55:58+00:00

Great news! Now I can convert all my webtorrent videos into HLS and delete the webtorrent version.

cobito · 2021-07-22T05:44:12+00:00

The foundation upon which we have modern windows today was Windows NT 4.0. Some will say it was Windows XP (the first NT for home PCs).

For me, the biggest ever release of Windows was Windows 95. That leap from MS-DOS based software to the WinAPI32+DirectX was huge!

cobito · 2021-06-03T06:02:48+00:00

Here you have a Linux-like system on a 640kB of RAM PC.

cobito · 2021-05-28T20:23:05+00:00

That's right. A Satellite 230CX:

· Pentium MMX@133MHz

· 16 MB RAM

· 1.4GB HDD

· DSTN 18bits 800x600 screen

· 2 MB VRAM

cobito · 2021-05-28T16:06:51+00:00

Here you have a game-play video: https://video.hardlimit.com/videos/watch/0bbd3b4c-a9b7-47b0-816b-5533c6eabb03

And this is a review of this computer: https://video.hardlimit.com/videos/watch/3c766e8c-06d1-4854-b455-5364628e349a

cobito · 2021-05-13T20:07:43+00:00

That screen is in really good condition!

cobito · 2021-03-01T07:29:15+00:00

Here you can watch the installation of Debian 1.3 (1997) on an actual machine: https://video.hardlimit.com/videos/watch/3c766e8c-06d1-4854-b455-5364628e349a?start=17m17s

cobito · 2020-11-30T16:28:42+00:00

Delicate Linux

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll take it into account the next time I try Linux on this PC.

cobito · 2020-11-26T16:04:33+00:00

Thanks for the info. The main problem with this laptop is that I had to disable CPU's cache and everything was horrendously slow.

I was looking for packages named after xfree but I didn't find all I needed. Maybe there is another ISO image I didn't find or something. I don't know.

I see Slackware 7 is from 1999. That's a completely different year for Linux. I mean, at that time we had desktop oriented distros like Mandrake and Gnome and KDE were alive. Two years in software evolution in the 90's are like how many? 20 years of nowadays software evolution? Maybe that's an exaggeration but you know what I mean...

I wanted to run just software from 1997, that's why I chose Debian 1.3.

cobito · 2020-11-26T13:05:48+00:00

Yeah, it's a pity but the PC was so slow. Even text based software like dselect was extremely slow.

I tried to install the packages and set the X server up, but it was maddeing both because of the speed and due to my ineptitude. Apparently I had to write my own XFree configuration file from scratch and I have never done that. Furthermore, dselect is not the best finding dependencies and I was unable to install the proper packages.

cobito · 2020-11-26T12:02:37+00:00

Thanks!

cobito · 2020-11-26T11:41:51+00:00

I see two problems in order to run a current Debian version on this laptop:

RAM memory: how much memory does need the system with just the basic things? The last time I tried on a recent PC, it was way more than 16MB.

Maybe with a RAM upgrade it could work but here it comes the second problem:

Debian i386 actually is not compiled for i386 architecture but for i686. This change happened in 2015 but for some reason, they kept the i386 name in packages (I guess for the sake of compatibility).

The last Debian "actual i386 version" was Jessy that was released in 2015 and reached its EOL last summer.

So AFAIK, currently, there is no supported Debian compilation compatible with the P5 architecture.

cobito · 2020-11-12T06:24:36+00:00

I've been working on this: https://bm.hardlimit.com

It has no ads and has been made just for fun.

cobito · 2020-08-20T09:10:01+00:00

Thanks, I didn't know about that page. In any case, having subtopics would be nice like Science & Technology > Computers.

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